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Anna Rose Willoughby

I study disease ecology, interwoven with conservation biology, data science, and evolutionary anthropology.

disease ecology

At EcoHealth Alliance I worked with an interdisciplinary team on the USAID-funded PREDICT project to enable global surveillance of emerging viruses. I helped build a mammal-virus database and explored viral sharing between bat species.

conservation biology

My love for scientific research began on several courses taught by the Organization for Tropical Studies. These intensive field courses immersed me the scientific method, and made me appreciate the conservation land-use planning.

data science

I use data from literature and the field to answer questions about pathogen presence and transmission. In particular, I am interested in identifying gaps in the scientfic literature to prioritize future studies. This requires a comparative approach, that relies on open data and compiled databases. I work primarily in R and on github.

evolutionary anthropology

During my undergraduate studies, my studies centered on primate social behavior and evolution. I completed a thesis on the interplay of reproduction, activity, and infection burden in wild chacma baboons. With a vertical team of researchers funded by Bass Connections, I studied the transition of infectious to chronic diseases in a geographically and genetically distinct population in Madagascar.

Map

map of places, echo = FALSE

places <- read.csv(file = "website_locations.csv")
library(maps)
library(rbokeh)
plot <- suppressWarnings(figure(width = 800, height = 450, padding_factor = 0) %>%
  ly_map("world", col = "gray") %>%
  ly_points(Longitude, Latitude, data = places, size = 5,
            color = Type,
            hover = c(Name, Date)))

plot
## Warning in structure(x, class = unique(c("AsIs", oldClass(x)))): Calling 'structure(NULL, *)' is deprecated, as NULL cannot have attributes.
##   Consider 'structure(list(), *)' instead.

## Warning in structure(x, class = unique(c("AsIs", oldClass(x)))): Calling 'structure(NULL, *)' is deprecated, as NULL cannot have attributes.
##   Consider 'structure(list(), *)' instead.

## Warning in structure(x, class = unique(c("AsIs", oldClass(x)))): Calling 'structure(NULL, *)' is deprecated, as NULL cannot have attributes.
##   Consider 'structure(list(), *)' instead.

## CV

Contact

Anna Willoughby 140 E. Green St. University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-2202 email: anna.willoughby @ uga.edu

Note that the echo = FALSE parameter was added to the code chunk to prevent printing of the R code that generated the plot.